Making Sense of Belonging: Translocal Subjectivity and Rootedness of Turkish-Born Women in Sweden

Merve Tunçer

doi:10.33134/njmr.535

Making Sense of Belonging: Translocal Subjectivity and Rootedness of Turkish-Born Women in Sweden

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

Volume 13 (2023): Issue 2

By: Merve Tunçer

Open Access

|Jun 2023

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